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CLAPHAM.
The population of this sub-district, as enumerated
at the Census of 1881, was 36,380. Assuming, according
to the mode of calculation employed by the RegistrarGeneral,
that it has increased at the same rate since that
period as it had done previously, it will have amounted,
at the middle of the past year, to 37,502.
Although so short a period has elapsed since the
Census, there is evidence, derived from the number of new
houses which have been erected and occupied, that a greater
increase has taken place than that determined according
to the official method of calculation. With increase of
population comes, what is less satisfactory, increased
density of population. At the Census of 1871 the
number of inhabitants was in the proportion of 22 persons
to an acre; now it represents 30 persons to an acre.
Notwithstanding this increase in the density of the population,
we have not as yet suffered from its usual consequences
in the form of a greater amount of disease
and a higher mortality